A pregnant teenager donates her embryo to a recipient mother who wants red-haired children. The doctor who pioneered the technology performs the microsurgery exquisitely.
Everyone should live happily ever after.
Except this isn't a fairy tale.
"Red," a short story originally published in Nature's Future science fiction section.
What if a brilliant killer stalks the halls of a Montreal hospital, and you're the only one who knows?
Dr. Hope Sze dives into her family medicine residency braced for anything from newborn babies to foot ulcers.
The one thing Hope doesn't expect? Murder.
Sex. Drugs. Doctors.
Written by a Derringer Award-winning emergency physician.
Because medicine can be murder.
Assassin school. Why not? Octavia “V” Ling figures she'll get an insane workout and the adventure she craves for a birthday that ends in a zero.
Until the other assassin students start attacking her.
So V sneaks out for a drink with a hot young Italian guy, only to wake up the in morning with a teeny hangover and a huge problem: someone killed her roommate and framed her for it.
Yoinks.
All Octavia “V” Ling wants? Inner peace and a piece of the sizzling spy named Dario.
Instead, she jets off to Goa, India and lands in the midst of spies! Lies! Yoga! Elephants! Betrayal!
The Goa Yoga School of Slayers. The hilarious, pulse-pounding sequel to The Italian School for Assassins.
When Oona's husband asks for an open marriage, she kicks him to the curb and makes a list.
A list of the guys not taken. The first guy she really loved. The guy who morphed into Dr. McDreamy. And the smokin' yoga teacher with abs of titanium.
The List of all the guys she coulda-woulda-shoulda.
Now Oona can. She will. And she should.
The List. Because a few good men are the best revenge.
Side Dish of Death for 12: Whaddya Mean 'Honor Among Thieves'..?
on Sep. 11, 2011
Looks like a lot of fun!
I haven't had a chance to do as a dinner party, but just reading the character descriptions and plot twists makes me want to take a run at it. I'll post another review once I've tried it in real life, but in the meantime, I'll be dreaming about Chicago during the Prohibition!
A Pleasing Shape
on Oct. 05, 2011
Very dark and cold, slipping from one scene to another, frightening in its detached descriptions of horror.